Commanders of the Civil War : brief biographies of selected generals and statesmen in the conflict of the War between the States

Commanders of the Civil War : brief biographies of selected generals and statesmen in the conflict of the War between the States / George Scott.

Entering the service on either side at various ranks and from all walks of life, thousands of men commanded as officers over the course of the Civil War. Some rose meteorically to high rank, while others ended their service considerably lower than their initial commission. The select group of forty-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scott, George A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Scott & Nix, 2011.
Subjects:
Confederate States of America. > Army > Officers > Biography.
United States. > Army > Officers > Biography.
Confederate States of America. > Army
United States. > Army
1861-1865
Generals > Confederate States of America > Biography.
Generals > United States > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
Armed Forces > Officers
Generals
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Biography.
United States
United States > Confederate States of America
Biographies
History
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard; General Braxton Bragg; Admiral Franklin Buchanan; Major General Benjamin Franklin Cheatham; Major General George Armstrong "Curly" Custer; President Jefferson Davis; Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early; Admiral David Glasgow Farragut; Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest; Major General John Charles Frémont; Major General James Abram Garfield; Major General John Gibbon; General-in-Chief Ulysses Simpson Grant; Chief-of-Staff Henry Wager Halleck; Vice President Hannibal Hamlin.
  • Major General Winfield Scott HancockLieutenant General William Joseph "Old Reliable" Hardee; Lieutenant General Ambrose Powell Hill; Lieutenant General John Bell Hood; Major General Joseph "Fightin' Joe" Hooker; Lieutenant General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson; Major General Richard W. Johnson; General Joseph Eggleston Johnston; General-in-Chief Robert Edward Lee; President Abraham Lincoln; Major General John Alexander "Black Jack" Logan; Lieutenant General James "Old Pete" Longstreet; Major General George Brinton "Little Mac" McClellan; Major General Irvin McDowell.
  • Major General George Gordon MeadeBrigadier General John Hunt Morgan; Lieutenant General John Clifford Pemberton; Major General George Edward Pickett; Major General Philip Henry "Little Phil" Sheridan; Major General William Tecumseh "Cump" Sherman; General Edmund Kirby Smith; Vice President Alexander Stephens; Major General Carter Littlepage Stevenson; Major General James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart; Major General George Henry "Rock of Chickamauga" Thomas; Major General Emory Upton; Lieutenant General Joseph "Fightin' Joe" Wheeler; Major General James Harrison Wilson; Admiral John Lorimer Worden.

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